Back to five hundred years ago, back to unfamiliar South America, back to the jungle, back to the native language that has been lost today, back to a group of Indians who were almost naked, back to a card without celebrities and at least familiar actors. Shi, "Apocalypse" takes people to a starting point, only the most basic elements of the movie: story and characters. But this time, instead of creating controversy on Jesus, Mel Gibson stirred up the waves in the depths of humanity with the story of an ordinary Mayan young man five hundred years ago.
This is a story about "running"---the young Mayan tribe named Jaguar Paw (leopard claw) ran all the way to escape from bad luck. It is also a story of a person struggling with his destiny. The weak who were slaughtered escaped from the hunt with their will, and escaped from the sea of bitterness to save their wives and children in a desperate situation with no chance of life. Ordinary stories gain life and tension in the display of absolute truth, and "real" means cruelty that is neither exaggerated nor evasive. This is a bloody movie. The human body is shattered and fractured in the wild era, and all this is described in a calm way, as if painful death and violence are the normal state of the world and human nature. Unlike the deliberate portrayal of pain in The Passion of Jesus, this time Mel Gibson touched the cruel nature of human nature with truth.
However, the deeper part of the movie is not the victory of a person's will, but the greater destiny. When Jaguar Jaw escaped, it was also the day that the Western expedition fleet landed on the South American continent. Think of the later history that we all know, you will understand the sentence on the film poster: No one can outrun his destiny, and also understand the opening caption of the film: "Great civilization will not be conquered by outsiders unless it first It begins to rot.”) So it can be said that this movie is about a person’s struggle, and the object he is fighting against, a great civilization that is self-corrupting, and a fate that neither he nor his civilization can escape.
The reverse of the fate of a person and a civilization makes us seem to have a glimpse of that era that has passed away, and it seems that we can see the evil nature of mankind that has never gone away. Is this the revelation of "Revelation"?
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